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From the 1939 New York World's Fair comes a man known as the Fantom, guarding it against crooks and the such. Eventually, he'd be known as Fantoman and expand his sphere of operations a bit. The Fantom owes a bit to the Phantom of Notre Dame, his hideout is below the Fair, accessible via boat across an underground river. He's strong enough to tear apart a rifle with his hands and bend its metal barrel as well as carrying a grown man over his head and punching his arm through a stone wall. He also knows hypnosis, able to hypnotize a thug into amnesia.
There's also hints at a vast history. A contractor of the Fair claims to have read about the Fantom in an old book when laying the foundation to the Fair.When an enormous arctic ape called Ticonda was on display at the World's Fair he saw the Fantom of the Fair, broke out of his cage and fought him. Although the battle was close, the Fantom finally knocked Ticonda out and returned him to captivity. An interesting comment was made in this story that Ticonda and the Fantom had fought 10,000 years before. A true mystery-man. He was also very hard-boiled and quite willing to torture enemies to get what he wanted, dedicating a room in his hideout for a collection of medival torture devices.
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